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Chasing the Internet—From Backyards to Boardrooms​, a revised version of Life Lessons—How to Fail and Win, chronicles Alan Knott-Craig's relentless pursuit to bridge South Africa's digital divide, taking listeners from his early entrepreneurial struggles to building one of the country's most innovative connectivity companies. This isn't just another startup story—it's a blueprint for purpose-driven entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

Marco nasce nella periferia romana degli anni Sessanta, in un quartiere di cemento e strade sbrecciate. Fin da piccolo capisce che la sua vita non sarà mai lineare: ogni caduta diventa una spinta verso un nuovo inizio. Negli anni Ottanta parte per Londra, capitale del punk e dei rave clandestini. Qui sopravvive tra lavori precari, fame e libertà assoluta, reinventandosi come lavapiatti, cuoco e intrattenitore improvvisato.

In his honest and passionate memoir, Jeff Pink shares his journey as an immigrant who started a small beauty supply shop in Los Angeles and developed it into a 135,000 square foot state-of-the-art factory and headquarters of ORLY International. As a beauty company producing more than 750 products for nail color and care, ORLY is distributed throughout the United States and 40 countries worldwide.

An authoritative company history of Berkshire Hathaway, fully updated to cover the last five years. Beginning with Berkshire's origins as a struggling textile company, The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway examines the development of the modern-day conglomerate year-by-year and...

"Não sei exatamente em que ano conheci Anderson, não sei onde eu estava, mas acho que trabalhava na Folha de S.Paulo como colunista da “Ilustrada” e Anderson já estava no comando da Arezzo. Também não acho que esse tipo de data seja tão relevante para uma história como a que nos une. Anderson, profissional como poucos nesse país, é um empresário com um olhar lá na frente e com os pés bem no chão. Tenho a impressão de que qualquer coisa que ele fizesse na vida daria muito certo, mas o fato é que ele escolheu fabricar sapatos, para minha alegria e de tantas mulheres brasileiras.

Em um relato tocante e profundamente inspirador, João Adibe Marques, CEO da Cimed, nos convida a percorrer as páginas de sua jornada, entrelaçando histórias de superação pessoal, legado familiar e uma trajetória empresarial de sucesso no competitivo mercado farmacêutico.

Over thirty different examples of situations and ideas to show you how you can change your approach and change your life . . . Looking to nail an INTERVIEW? Want to make a better first impression on a DATE? Trying to make your MONEY go further? Bet you never thought being a bit more PSYCHOPATH...

If you are bored and unfulfilled by dry and overly worthy self-help manuals, then this is the book for you! Read this and take a very different look at yourself! Former SAS hero Andy McNab and eminent psychologist Professor Kevin Dutton are unlikely partners. As Oxford academic and bestselling...

From the streets of the South Bronx to the boardrooms of Fortune 100 companies, Anthony P. Carter’s extraordinary life is a testament to the power of faith, friendship, and purpose. As a Black Catholic leader shaped by a Jesuit education, Carter has faced the hard truths about race and identity in America, all while staying rooted in an unshakable devotion to God. Carter blends moving personal stories with spiritual insights and corporate wisdom, offering listeners a rare perspective on what it means to lead with dignity and compassion.

Barbara Melvin has a secret to her success: her five Ps. And never were they more important than the day she woke up in her Naples, Florida home, blind. In the blink of an eye, life changed.

Addicted. Incarcerated. Homeless. Most people don’t come back from that. But Cleadus and Erin did—together. This isn’t just a story about flipping houses. It’s about flipping your life. Once two lost souls battling addiction, running from the law, and scraping by in motel rooms and jail cells, Cleadus and Erin Shelton found redemption in the most unlikely places—recovery programs, late-night conversations, and eventually, real estate.

An uplifting and inspiring business memoir for readers who loved Kitchen Confidential, Shoe Dog, A Pirate Looks at Fifty, or anyone seeking inspiration about resilience, leadership, community, and finding joy in life's simple pleasures. What if a simple cheeseburger held the secret to rebuilding...

Bill Gates didn’t invent the computer. He didn’t design the first operating system. He didn’t even finish college. And yet — his fingerprints are on every desktop, every spreadsheet, every mouse click that reshaped the modern world. This biography reveals the man behind the myth, the moves behind the money, and the mind behind Microsoft.

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. and NeXT. The following recording is from a February 18th 1981 television interview. At the time, Steve Jobs was twenty-six years old, and Apple had gone public only two months earlier—on December 12, 1980, through its IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In the interview, Jobs discusses the future of personal computers and the impact it will have on the technology world, using analogies of the electric motor to illustrate the evolution of personal computing.

Brought to you by Penguin. Canva creator Melanie Perkins and her partner Cliff Obrecht wrote their own playbook. Here’s the story of what we should all hope the next generation of business will look like: how they did it, why they did it, and why it worked. Born out of simple frustration with...

Brought to you by Penguin. Minette Batters was the first female president of the National Farmers’ Union in its 109-year history. During that time, she fought tooth and nail for the interests of farmers, never afraid to put her head above the parapet. But Minette’s expertise in British...

Roland Arnolds Leben zeigt, dass nichts unmöglich ist. Ohne Startkapital, ohne privilegierte Voraussetzungen – und ohne aufzugeben: Roland Arnold hat aus bescheidenen Anfängen eine beeindruckende Karriere aufgebaut. Seine Geschichte inspiriert Menschen jeden Alters, ihre Träume zu verfolgen und Hindernisse als Chance zu sehen. Roland Arnold ist der Beweis dafür, dass Erfolg nicht von den äußeren Umständen abhängt, sondern von innerer Stärke, Entschlossenheit und der Bereitschaft, niemals aufzugeben.

A inspiradora jornada do empresário que transformou uma pequena farmácia de manipulação em Curitiba no Grupo Boticário — com cerca de 3,7 mil lojas no Brasil e presente em outros quinze países. Miguel Krigsner costuma dizer que "há momentos na vida em que não tem como ser 'mais ou menos'. É tudo ou nada". Assim foi quando, ainda jovem, decidiu cursar farmácia e resolveu que iria empreender. Começou com uma botica, que cresceu aos poucos, com ajuda de empréstimos e a compra de um estoque que pertencera a Silvio Santos.

«Ero tra i consulenti dei massimi dirigenti dell'azienda, Mark Zuckerberg e Sheryl Sandberg, mentre escogitavano il modo in cui l'organizzazione avrebbe interagito con i governi di tutto il mondo. Alla fine, li ho guardati, senza più speranze, fare la corte a regimi autoritari come quello cinese e, con assoluta noncuranza, ingannare l'opinione pubblica. Ero su un jet privato con Mark il giorno in cui finalmente capì che con ogni probabilità Facebook aveva contribuito a portare Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca, e ne trasse le sue personali e oscure conclusioni.»

As PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin devised a powerful search engine. Google, the company they founded in 1998 became a brand, the world's pre-eminent search engine, a centre of artificial intelligence and a source of data collection. This fascinating biography looks at the background behind the formation of the company, as well as the technology and the business model that led it to become so successful.